The Dataverse Network Project

A Dataverse for Your Research Project: Create a project dataverse that offers an organized view of all of the data sets created by your project.

What is a dataverse?

A dataverse is a virtual archive where you can communicate the contributions of your project to the scholarly community, university deans, granting agencies, and other prospective funders. A dataverse includes facilities to list news, notes, and plans so you can announce what data are coming in addition to what already is available. It ensures that researchers receive formal scholarly citation credit, and can increase participants web visibility. Easy customization makes your dataverse look like part of your project's website.

How do I get a dataverse for my project?

Go to http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu and click “Create Your Own Dataverse”. (It takes less than a minute!) After your dataverse is created, upload your data or link to existing data, organize your collections, and customize your dataverse to brand it like your project's website. Then release it to share it with others, and add a link back to your dataverse on project and researcher's personal websites. Creating a dataverse is free, easy, and available now!

What are the features?

• Procure safe and permanent data storage in preservation format.
• Remove need to translate data when statistical software formats change.
• Obtain formal citations to your data, including globally unique identifiers and universal numeric fingerprints.
• Establish an unbreakable link between project data and related published work.
• Acquire easy ways for others to find your project’s data and related publications.
• Share your data with everyone, those who sign your licensing agreement, or only those individuals you approve.
• Allow users to download data in any format and run many advanced statistical methods on-line.

What is the Dataverse Network Software?

It’s a web application that serves out individual dataverses to scholars, research groups, journals, presses, scholarly organizations, departments, libraries, universities, and archives. IQSS developed it at Harvard, and several sites, including IQSS, maintain permanent archives and run the necessary software and servers. See http://TheData.org for more information.

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